A new proposal from Nepal aims to tighten requirements and improve climber safety on the world's tallest peak, but such ...

and the future of high-altitude climbing. Four former British special forces soldiers have climbed Mount Everest in just under five days, setting a new record for the fastest ascent without ...

Hundreds of climbers have attempted to climb Mount Everest from the Nepali side of the peak in the south this season, which ends this weekend. Most climbing of Everest and nearby Himalayan peaks ...

But Wally is also a seasoned climber, and he’s at Mount Everest to complete the so-called Seven Summits—climbing the highest mountains on all of the continents. He’s also trying to reach the ...

Engineer Philipp "PJ" Santiago was looking to draw attention to the plight of children with cancer when he set out to climb Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. According to Raffy Tima's report on ...

Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then. He was unable to climb Everest in 2014 because the season was canceled after 16 Sherpa guides were ...

Four British climbers pose on the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday after preparing for the climb with xenon gas.Credit...Sandro Gromen/Associated Press Supported by By Jonathan Wolfe and ...

Lumping his 31 feats together, Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed nearly 90,000 feet above sea level on the famous peak — about 170.5 miles above sea level, or equivalent to Earth's upper atmosphere.

A 55-year-old Nepali man has broken his own world record for climbing Mount Everest, summiting Earth’s highest mountain for the 31st time. Kami Rita, a Sherpa climbing guide known as “Everest ...

An Indian and a Filipino climber have died while climbing Mount Everest, as hundreds of climbers are attempting to scale the world's highest peak, expedition organizers said Friday. The Indian ...

Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then. He was unable to climb Everest in 2014 because the season was canceled after 16 Sherpa guides were ...

In 2018, he posted a photo of Edmund Hillary and Roger Bannister on Instagram: “Some of my earliest heroes and two of my loftiest goals: climb Mount Everest, break 4 minutes in the mile.